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Comment on VMs with dropped packets %DRPRX by Duncan

Duncan — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:48:49 +0000

I had the exact same issue 6 months ago or so,

http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2010/02/02/e1000-and-dropped-rx-packets/

Comment on VMware Desktop Reference Architecture Workload Simulator (RAWC) by Tina

Tina — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:07:44 +0000

Does the tool simulates all the mouse clicks and keyboard operations through Display protocol for workload execution, or just workload scripts running on the desktop VMs?
Thanks in advance.

Comment on Best practices for HP EVA, vSphere 4 and Round Robin multi-pathing by Hans

Hans — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:00:43 +0000

Use the nmp plugin for the device list output for the device list
Enable round robin for all LUNs
for dev in $(esxcli nmp device list | grep “^naa”); do esxcli nmp device setpolicy –psp VMW_PSP_RR –device $dev; done

Get config
for dev in $(esxcli nmp device list | grep “^naa”); do esxcli nmp roundrobin getconfig –device $dev; done

Comment on New version of the Powershell Healthcheck script released by Kris

Kris — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:18:37 +0000

would you please have the latest script in place?

Comment on VMware Powershell Healthcheck script by Jose

Jose — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:42:21 +0000

Can you send me the updated script?

Comment on Best practices for HP EVA, vSphere 4 and Round Robin multi-pathing by me

me — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:21:17 +0000

Should you also adjust the path selection of the Storage Array controllers ? E.G. a HP Fibre channel raid controller (naa.5001etc.)

Can this both be RR as MRU ?

Comment on Howto extend the VMDK and the Windows disk by Mike Tolland

Mike Tolland — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:37:23 +0000

Clone VM1 and call it VM2. Follow through the same steps and see whether you still get the same problem.

Is VM1 a clean install of w2k3 x64?

Comment on Howto extend the VMDK and the Windows disk by todorojo

todorojo — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:25:12 +0000

In the original post it says:

“It is not possible to extend the system- and bootvolume by using the diskpart built-in command. There are other options you can use:

- Add the system- and bootdisk volume to the other Virtuele Machine (VM) as disk. Start the other VM and use the diskpart command to extend this disk or use an 3e party partition tool.”

So I did exactly that, I shutdown the vm who’s boot partition I wanted to extend (lets call him vm1), added that vmdk to vm2 and booted vm2. In order for diskpart to let me extend the vmdk of vm1 I had to assign it a drive letter. So I did that and then extended the volume without any issue. I then powered off vm2 and disconnected the vmdk for vm1. Then, when I started back up vm1 I got this error:

“Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM

You can attempt to repair this file by starting Windows Setup using the original Setup CD-ROM.
Select ‘r’ at the first screen to start repair.”

Did I do something wrong? Why would I get this? Why didn’t anyone else in this thread run into this?

I’m running vSphere 4.0 and vm1 and vm2 are both w2k3 x64 VMs.

Any info / help as to why I ran into this issue (this is the second time I’ve run into this issue) as well as any resolution on how to fix it would be greatly appreciated!

Thx!

Comment on New version of the Powershell Healthcheck script released by Shahnawaz

Shahnawaz — Wed, 19 May 2010 09:12:52 +0000

Dear All,

I am working in a college, we have one printer server connected with mulltiple printers.

Is there any script to find that, how many pages has been printed by the user of same domain? and to controle them.

an early respnce will be appreciated.

Thanks,
Shahnawaz

Comment on Best practices for HP EVA, vSphere 4 and Round Robin multi-pathing by Generious

Generious — Tue, 18 May 2010 08:26:35 +0000

No issues reported before had seen issues with fixed paths and the 8000 series that was leading to LUN drops at random points.